After starting a homeless court, building up its shelter, housing and outreach services, the South Bay city of Redondo Beach has reached the point where more people are getting shelter and housing than becoming homeless.
In the morning, Lila Omura checked in on a woman on the beach who was kicked out of her shelter, again, because she wouldn't shower. By noon she had comforted a raggedly dressed man outside a coffee shop who couldn't stop crying and offered help to a woman on a bus bench who snapped back, 'You need help more than I do.
It requires a city to move people off the streets into shelter or housing in at least a median of 90 days and to have more people leaving homelessness than falling into it. Redondo Beach reached that equilibrium in the first six months of 2024 when the by-name list grew by 65 and 66 people were taken off the street. Of them, 31 went to shelter, 14 to permanent housing, 11 to mental health, detox or domestic violence facilities and 10 were reunified with families.
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